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A Wanderer's Notebook is a japonais film of genre Drama directed by Mikio Naruse with Hideko Takamine
A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)
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Add to a movie listA Wanderer's Notebook (放浪記 , Hourou-ki), also known as Her Lonely Lane, is a 1962 black-and-white Japanese film drama directed by Mikio Naruse, starring Hideko Takamine. The film is based on the autobiography of author Fumiko Hayashi, whose work the director often adapted for the screen.
Synopsis
Fumiko Hayashi (Hideko Takamine) is a young woman can't find a decent job, meanwhile being dumped by her boyfriend and writing on the side. People say her writing on poverty is good, but she can't sell it and continues with dead end factory and bar hostess jobs and occasional heavy drinking. She gets together with another aspiring writer Fukuya (Akira Takarada) who can't sell his work either. Despite she doing all she can for him and his disease tuberculosis, he abuses her verbally and eventually physically. She walks out, comes back, walks out again. A kind man, Nobuo Sadaoka (Daisuke Katō) helps her occasionally, but she rejects his proposal. After these struggles, the film ends up with her literary success.Actors
Hideko Takamine
(Fumiko Hayashi)
Akira Takarada
(Fukuya)
Daisuke Katō
(Nobuo Sadaoka)
Kinuyo Tanaka
(Kishi, Fumiko's mother)
Yumi Shirakawa
(Nobuo Sadaoka)
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